Photographs

R_006

Album R 1911 - Iraq, Turkey

Date taken: April 1911

Photographer: Gertrude Bell

Location: Hatra - Iraq

Modern location: Hadr, Al (Hatra)

Size: 10.8/16.7

Condition: Good

Subject date: Early Parthian

Description: Hatra S liwan [Palace - S Liwan - interior wall with sculptured heads on pilaster, projecting moulding and arched doorway. (Plain back wall (to right of photograph) possibly a later addition.) "And more curious still, high up on the walls in the interior of the halls they set huge human heads in groups of three, and these too are sometimes dimly classical, a Medusa head, a bearded river god; and sometimes they are wild and staring masks, scarcely human."]